@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 3:45

Parasite (2019) - Social Realism at it's best #SwellMicroReview

So the obvious messaging in the movie is the class divide between the haves and the have nots and the other not so obvious. One is the divide that exists between the Have nots themselves as victims of systemic oppression. The lesser privileged go about trying to eliminate each other in order to survive on the leftovers of the rich. So the film appears metaphorical when in reality the happenings in it aren't too far from what is happening around us

Movies don't get any better than this! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:35

Read White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Hello nameless Journal. That was a great micro review of the movie for me. I actually have not followed too many of the parasite reviews or anything like that. And you were like, what can be said? That hasn't already been said, right? I haven't heard what has been said. So this is all new to me. A I don't watch too many movies. I don't know if I hear it. I hear it
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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:16

@bookishpodcast

Bookish Podcast thank you so much for sharing your views on the movie. I completely agree that parts of the movie are quite hard to ballot given its stark and realistic portrayal without any glossing over. And it's great that you brought up Adiga's White Tiger here in this context. Yes, I have read the book years ago. Not one of my favorites, exactly, but I did enjoy the darkly comic undertone and the first person narrative in the book
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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:37

#movietrivia for those interested

And also the film was initially imagined as a play when he came up with this idea. But I'm glad that it made it to a movie. And yet another interesting thing is that most of the actors in the movie had no clue of what they were signing up for when they accepted their role. And quite obviously it worked out very well for them
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@SVJ
S V
@SVJ · 2:24

#mastercraftsman Bong Joon Ho #⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kangho Song as key take the father of the poor family. He actually made me feel empathetic and antagonistic at the same time, and it's a brilliant performance. The story plot is gripping. Writer director Bong Jongho gets it all spot on from the word go, the paradigm of the upstairs and downstairs. That is the class divide. It's so well established from the first shot where we see Joywoke searching for WiFi in his Drunky home, which seems to be below the road level
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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:47

The end?

I would love to hear specifically what people think of the ending of this film. I've seen it a couple of times now, and it is the only element of the film that really, really gave me pause and made me wonder if it was the best choice. And I feel really torn on it because I feel like I understand why that decision was made to end it in the way it did. But I'm wondering other people's reactions. Did you feel satisfied by the ending?
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N of Y
@TRT · 5:00

interpretation

So the movie has created a divide and the divide is already there. What it has done. It has shown us the door that each one of us can cross and do or play their part to fix things in their given lives, to Con a family, to cheat someone or to make money, or to continue to survive by doing what's not the right thing to do in an ideal world. It's one thing
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